> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour
J.)
>
> "Chase, John" said:
>
> >AFAIK our "shop standard" back in VS COBOL II days was to specify
> >TRUNC(BIN) for all "online" programs. I think most "address-type"
> >fields were specified PIC S9(8) COMP, so the "decimal
> limitation" got
> >hit a lot sooner.
>
> Doesn't COBOL allow declaring variables as binary? It used to.
Still does. But the compiler doesn't DWIM yet.
-jc-
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